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The role of law in global value chains: a research manifesto
(Oxford University Press, 2016-02-27)
Most scholars attribute the development and ubiquity of global value chains to economic forces, treating law as an exogenous factor, if at all. By contrast, we assert the centrality of legal regimes and private order-ing ...
Occupational Regulation in the European Union: Coverage and Wage Effects
(Wiley, 2018-11-27)
We present the first EU-wide study on the prevalence and labour market impactof occupational regulation in the European Union. Drawing on a new EU Surveyof Regulated Occupations, we find that licensing affects about 22 per ...
Elementary forms and their dynamics: revisiting Mary Douglas
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014-08-05)
Mary Douglas's oeuvre furnishes the social sciences with one of the most profound and ambitious bodies of social theory ever to emerge from within anthropology. This article uses the occasion of the publication of Fardon's ...
Explaining decision-making in government: the neo-Durkheimian institutional framework
(Wiley Online, 2014-03)
In understanding styles of political judgement in government decision-making, explanatory limitations of rational choice, prospect theoretic, historical institutional, groupthink, and other approaches suggest that there ...
Unintended, unanticipated or unexpected consequences of policy and surprises for government: understanding how bias and process shape causation – comparing British governments, 1959-74
(Wiley Online, 2014-04-22)
The vulnerability of policymaking to unintended and unanticipated consequences has been documented since Thucydides. Yet we still lack integrated conceptual and explanatory accounts of their variety and aetiology. Adequate ...
Migration and Refugee Governance in the Mediterranean: Europe and International Organisations at a Crossroads
(2015-10-01)
The death of Aylan, a 3-year-old boy on a Turkish beach, prompted European leaders and public opinions to acknowledge that Europe is the deadliest migration destination in the world. In spite of this disturbing truth, there ...
Governing Labour Standards through Free Trade Agreements: Limits of the European Union’s Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters
(Wiley, 2018-03-25)
The EU has established a new architecture of international labour standards governance within the Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) chapters of its Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). To examine the operationalization of ...